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I regret listening
to white Jesus
when before a bully
whose vocabulary limited
blood and bone.
it would have been better
if my palms wept with red oil
knuckles smashing her nose
into a ground cashew,
taught her that justice
exists somewhere because,
I didn’t know it then, but
those children grow up to kill.

-white Jesus, Kelsey Ray Banerjee